The Mupen64 was the pilot project, was abandoned in version 0.5
and later will only return to port to 64bits architectures, but in
the effort was powered and now the mupen64 continues at the hands
of new developers, but for all architectures mostly used, and with
new capabilities and features not ever seen in other competitors
like VCR and LIRC.

Mupen64 was developed by Hacktarux http://mupen64.emulation64.com/
close to 2003, was created in 2005 in the GUI gtk by Blight, with
the collaboration of other developers already working on other
emulators less powerful, was ported different plugins of tasking
system, the latest version 0.5 was still very compatible, then
abandoned, richie42 take the project only for a port to amd64
under the name of mupen64-amd64 in 2007, but not having sufficient
resources, joined forces with nmn; later Gunther, edenblues,
darkjester and others that are not know how to write well (I'm in
a cyber cafe), started to port the rice plugin, but at the time
the union gave the fruit to the new mupen64plus, correcting many
minor factors that make better and powerfull the old emulator.